Random: A Fan Has Created a 2D Yooka-Laylee For SNES

Reminds me of grunty's revenge

very banjo!

@InternetBowser

I agree for the future AND for the past. How cheap is it for Square to make another run of Chronotrigger carts? Charge $20 or $30 and cash in. No work to be done but find manufacturing. OR if they localized games (like Seiken Densetsu 3) and made them e-shops, but printed a number of carts too???

My dream.

Huh ?!

Wow, that looks pretty good. I would play that in a heartbeat if it is ever finished. Regardless, that's some dedication. For a game that isn't even out yet. o3o

@Frody999 I noticed a small typo in the first paragraph; thought not quite Switch yet. Added an extra t at the end there.

I'm already playing the game's Xbox One version. It's an absolute blast and, most importantly, Banjo-Threeie in anything but name.

neat, but a waste of time

@speedracer216 I think it's easy to grossly over estimate the amount of demand for such a product. Plenty of people say they want retro games (As a retro collector, I actually would love and buy them) but I think the vast majority of people would either skip the retro stuff altogether, or simply buy one of the modern releases. I think the group of us that would actually buy such a product is just far too small for it to be worth their while. We can dream though.

@EternalDragonX I wouldn't call honing your craft a waste of time. If nothing else, the developer would have got a lot of experience with programming, visual, and audio design that would likely carry over into another project if he wanted. As a hobbyist web designer that is beginning to dabble in programming/electronics projects, I'm constantly doing stupid things that will never turn into real products, but are definitely valuable from an experience perspective.

@EternalDragonX Creating something is a waste of time? Would you say it was a waste of time if it was some awesome painting or something?

@roadrunner343
If i were running a company....
this would be a perfect place to do something like kickstarter.

You REALLY want Mother 3? SD3? whatever other game? Ok! Here's the kickstarter. The cost of translation is x, the cost of carts is y, etc. so if we raise "$xx,xxx" dollars and you donated $20 you get the e-shop version, if you did $30 you get a custom SNES cart!"

whatever the overhead is, they add it in and make it up to us to drum up the interest. fans are pretty rabid about that stuff so i wouldn't be surprised to see it work.

@roadrunner343 Unfortunately, you're right. Even if you just look at the VC, if it was the money printer fans seem to think it is, Nintendo wouldn't have backed away from robust support.

Shame, but I guess that's the downside of progress!

@speedracer216 I could get behind that. I think you are right that this would be a great fit for a kick starter. No real risk/upfront cost on the companies side, and if there truly is demand from the fans, they'll pony up.

@World Sucks we won't see releases of old games, for sure. But on the other hand, I don't feel overly bothered by it - nothing's stopping me from going out and buying copies of the original (Except ridiculous prices, sometimes) and all my old consoles either still work great, or have been repaired to great working condition (With RGB out, for the most part), so I don't personally have any issues finding ways to play my old games. I can sympathize with those who can't same the same, though.

This is the same guy who did Super Boss Gaiden and Super Road Blaster, so he's definitely very talented (and I had the pleasure of chatting to him as part of a SNES book recently).

@Mayhem about what?

Bundle this with the game!!!

Strange that non Nintendo IP's that receive this kind of treatment are praised by Nintendo fanboys.
Yet if someone has the audacity to do this with Nintendo games, the rabbid fanboys come out with their pitch forks and torches.

@Alucard83 Mostly the Super Nintendo library as a whole, but it's also covering homebrew in a small section, which is why I spoke to Matt (aka Mr Von Laser) as his output has been fairly prominent.

It looks great, but why have an idle animation if it's nothing but the character trembling slightly?

I see you've played fan-developer before.

...aw shoot, no ROM link..

OK but is JonTron in it?

@roadrunner343 Yeah, that's a fair point. It's only annoying when either you want to play on new hardware or if you're missing something in your collection that has an inflated price online.

Its nice to see a fan get praise for something like this, and not a C&D.

I would LOVE for this game to be real!

@InternetBowser

You want cardboard boxes back??

As a Nintendo fan since 1988 ill admit Sega had the right idea all along. Hard shell cases are so much better to collect and store.

1st and foremost, that's one sexy super famicom
2nd amazing work
3rd it blows my mind how far can games have changed in the last few years. They're guys are so damn skilled.

This is awesome and all, but, I wish Nintendo or someone (Sega, SNK, etc.) would put out a new 8-bit system. Or 16 bit, or 32 bit. With new old school games. I'd still be up for buying more Bonk's, Sonic's, Super Mario Bros., etc. if that was a thing that existed. If people would buy such a thing, these AAA game developers could save a ton of money making 2D games, and the games could be better than ever.

Nice.

@samuelvictor

High five!

Ngp boxes were AWESOME!